Many Southern African leaders had singled out lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as scapegoats for their countries’ problems, the Human Rights Watch and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said in a report released on Wednesday.
Desperate Iraqis searched on Wednesday for remains of their loved ones at one of the largest mass graves yet found in Iraq, piled with thousands of victims of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
South Africa’s Black Management Forum told parliament on Wednesday that labour inspectors were not visible enough and there was lack of external verification of companies’ claims in affirmative action reports.
SA consumers could see a 30 cents per litre cut in the retail petrol price in June as the recent decline in the daily over-recovery is not enough to wipe out the gains accumulated before the retail petrol price was adjusted on May 7.
If the present economic climate deteriorates further, South African exports will be constrained in both value and volume terms and financial markets will remain volatile, warns Nedcor chief economist Dennis Dykes.
Horse-trading between the South African government and internet tourism company Virtual Countries has begun in earnest over the rights to the domain southafrica.com
The United Nations Security Council postponed a mission to West Africa, scheduled to begin on Thursday, so ambassadors can be in New York for negotiations on a resolution dealing with postwar Iraq issues.
The National Union of Metalworkers of SA and the Steel Engineering Industry Federation of SA are set to begin their first round of wage negotiations on Wednesday.
An outbreak of malaria in Zimbabwe has killed at least 500 people during the first four months this year, compared with the 300 who died of the disease throughout 2002, a health official said on Tuesday.
Wits on Tuesday rejected media reports that it was bankrupt. Wits finance director Andre de Wet said the university had launched a range of initiatives in 2000 to stem many of negative trends that dogged the institution.